Joshua Varner wrote:
> On 6/22/05, Tim Blackman <Tim.Blackman@sun.com> wrote:
>
>>On Jun 22, 2005, at 12:58 AM, John Browne wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Are there any "gotchas" with merging changes back and forth (2-way
>>>merging) between the trunk and a branch? The subversion book seems to
>>>imply that it's not a problem, but other things I've read say 2-way
>>>merging is bad.. Seems like if the developers are using "clean"
>>>working copies with no local mods when the merge occurs it should work
>>>fine.
>>>
>>>Any thoughts?
>>
>>Merges don't always take into account files that have been moved in the
>>branch or the trunk.
>>
>>- Tim
>>
>
>
> Here are some recent e-mails about it. I think the general consensus
> is that merging should occur in only one direction at a time, unless
> you want to spend the extra time to coordinate the changes b/w the
> developers.
>
> http://subversion.tigris.org/servlets/ReadMsg?listName=users&msgNo=33634
> http://subversion.tigris.org/servlets/ReadMsg?listName=users&msgNo=33078
> http://subversion.tigris.org/servlets/ReadMsg?listName=users&msgNo=31725
>
> svk and arch handle this a little better since it is more fundamental
> to the distributed VC systems, so if it is necessary for you, you
> might take a look at those.
>
I'm currently evaluating svk for this very purpose. I've been working on
a local branch and smerging changes from the trunk to it on a regular
basis (and I've not had to specify any to:from revisions when doing this
either, which is nice). The acid test will be when I come to merge the
branch onto the trunk. Should be interesting...
Just had and idea, and tried that merge-back as a dry-run equivalent
(smerge -C). It correctly showed that it would have merged the stuff
I've been working on and ignored what had been merged in the other
direction.
So far so good!
> Josh
>
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